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Adrian Piccoli, The Age, 30 Nov 2018. NAPLAN and the publishing of school-by-school reslts on the MySchool website started out as relatively harmless, but has turned into a wrecking ball for Australian education. Read the article here

The Age, 27 Nov 2018. New analysis by Macquarie University has found that the area in which a student goes to school is one of the clearest predictors of Year 5 NAPLAN reading scores, painting a stark picture of Australia’s socio-educational divide. Read the article here

Trevor Cobbold, Save Our Schools, 15 Nov 2018. Australia prides itself on its egalitarian ethos, but it is a myth in education. We have one of the most segregated school systems and to be the 2nd most unequal education system in the developed world is disgraceful and scandalous. Read the report here

The Conversation, 1 Nov 2018. The Australian Curriculum defines decoding as ‘A process of working out the meaning of words in a text. In decoding, readers draw on contextual, vocabulary, grammatical and phonic knowledge.’ However, the Victorian coalition defines decoding only as ‘sounding out letters’ and wants their misinformed view of decodable readers in schools […]

The Conversation, 15 Oct 2018. Words are spelled according to their meaning parts (morphemes) as well as their sounds (phonemes). They work together so the two must be taught together. Read the article here